Shady spyware firm linked to hacking journalists held talks with UK officials

Intellexa spyware was used to infect phones and extract personal data (Picture: Getty/Metro)

British officials held talks with a spyware company whose software was used to target journalists and was later sanctioned by the US, Metro can reveal.

Officials met salesmen from Intellexa, whose surveillance application Predator was used to spy on at least 87 people in Greece and was sold to authoritarian regimes across the world.

Four business executives linked to the spyware developer were found guilty by an Athens court in February of violating the confidentiality of telephone communications and illegally accessing personal data...